fuji photoshop challenge

[badpickev]

i put up a file for d/l on my site. show what you can do with this. this will run for a week. the access closes wednesday next week.

for use with an ftp program

the user name is kevsfun the password is Kevsfun1
go to badpicphotography.net

there is a S3 raf file to d/l. have fun and post your finished product.

ie or firefox

You will have to cut and paste this link:

ftp://kevsfun:Kevsfun1@ftp.badpicphotography.net

[jfrancho]

I've got this loaded right now - cool pic. I think you might get more takers if you put this in the Before and After category. I don't have a Fuji, but that doesn't really matter.

I do have a question, can you give me an idea of the color when you shot this? I have my own ideas on how I want to deal with it, but I'd like to know how far off I am from "as seen."

[badpickev]

there are 3 examples in the sunset post. the top 3 pics are from the same location

[jfrancho]

OK, thanks. That's kind of what I thought.

[jfrancho]

This is the first version. I decided to tone down the warmness of the image, without making it too unreal. I messed with the raw settings, there is a snippet of the relevent xmp data below. After conversion, I cleaned up the noise, and ran a light first pass of sharpening. Then I brought up the luminance of the boats about a stop, and a very slight lightening of the water. There were three goobers - one looked like it might have been a jet? - and they were patch tooled. I used TLR Creative sharpen for just the De-Haze filter. Outside of high pass on the resize for the web for sharpening, that's it. The full size version has a different level of sharpening applied.

xmp (raw settings):

 <crs:Version>3.4x89</crs:Version>
 <crs:RawFileName>DSCF2412.RAF</crs:RawFileName>
 <crs:WhiteBalance>Auto</crs:WhiteBalance>
 <crs:Temperature>2850</crs:Temperature>
 <crs:Tint>0</crs:Tint>
 <crs:Exposure>+0.25</crs:Exposure>
 <crs:Shadows>0</crs:Shadows>
 <crs:Brightness>61</crs:Brightness>
 <crs:Contrast>+25</crs:Contrast>
 <crs:Saturation>+2</crs:Saturation>
 <crs:Sharpness>0</crs:Sharpness>
 <crs:LuminanceSmoothing>10</crs:LuminanceSmoothing>
 <crs:ColorNoiseReduction>3</crs:ColorNoiseReduction>
 <crs:ChromaticAberrationR>+5</crs:ChromaticAberrationR>
 <crs:ChromaticAberrationB>+6</crs:ChromaticAberrationB>
 <crs:VignetteAmount>+2</crs:VignetteAmount>
 <crs:VignetteMidpoint>50</crs:VignetteMidpoint>
 <crs:ShadowTint>0</crs:ShadowTint>
 <crs:RedHue>-10</crs:RedHue>
 <crs:RedSaturation>+30</crs:RedSaturation>
 <crs:GreenHue>-5</crs:GreenHue>
 <crs:GreenSaturation>-15</crs:GreenSaturation>
 <crs:BlueHue>+14</crs:BlueHue>
 <crs:BlueSaturation>-36</crs:BlueSaturation>
 <crs:ToneCurveName>Strong Contrast</crs:ToneCurveName>
 <crs:ToneCurve>
  <rdf:Seq>
  <rdf:li>0, 0</rdf:li>
  <rdf:li>32, 16</rdf:li>
  <rdf:li>64, 50</rdf:li>
  <rdf:li>128, 128</rdf:li>
  <rdf:li>192, 202</rdf:li>
  <rdf:li>255, 255</rdf:li>
  </rdf:Seq>
 </crs:ToneCurve>
 <crs:CameraProfile>ACR 2.4</crs:CameraProfile>
 <crs:HasSettings>True</crs:HasSettings>
 <crs:CropTop>0</crs:CropTop>
 <crs:CropLeft>0.019163</crs:CropLeft>
 <crs:CropBottom>1</crs:CropBottom>
 <crs:CropRight>0.980837</crs:CropRight>
 <crs:CropAngle>1.141734</crs:CropAngle>
 <crs:HasCrop>True</crs:HasCrop>
 </rdf:Description>

For broadband users, a fullsize version.

[badpickev]

last day to play

[badpickev]

this ends tonight

[badpickev]

well mr franco is the winner. cause he was the only one to play.

[jfrancho]

Howo about some critique of my processing, Kev.

[badpickev]

there is not much i dont like. the left side is a nice shade of blue, almost tungsten in color. you kept the edges sharp while filling it out as a silhouette. the detail around the sun seems to be increased, yet the color is true. i think this wouldhave been hard to beat.